N or Mexican, but as if it were. English is Mexican by birth, but heart and test the nearly 20 years he spent in Spain teaching many generations of Mexicans as a professor both at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Universidad Iberoamericana. This is Manuel Ortuño Martínez, BA in Political Science and a Ph.D. in American History from the University Complutense in Madrid.
This afternoon Dr. Ortuño Martínez, on the stroke of 19:30 pm present his book "Prim and tripartite intervention in Mexico" in the cultural field of the Mexico Institute in Spain, accompanied by D. José María Espinosa de los Monteros, Chairman of the Forum for the study of military history of Spain and the Minister Jaime del Arenal Fenochio, Director of the Institute of Mexico in Spain.
The work addresses a very interesting passage in the history of Mexico, one in which was a very important role Benito Juárez, a newcomer to the presidency and faced a major international crisis:
The tripartite intervention in Mexico (October 1861 - May 1862) is the name taken by the military expedition of intervention, expeditionary forces composed of England, France and Spain in the mid-nineteenth century. The Tripartite Convention signed in London in October 1861 decided to raise this issue, which from the standpoint of diplomatic and military led the English General Juan Prim, in front of four thousand English soldiers, two thousand French and several dozen English sailors.The signatories of the Convention required the Republic of Mexico to pay international debts contracted earlier and for different reasons. For its part, the government of President Benito Juárez, who had just taken power, the war ended three years, decided the suspension of any payment, interior or exterior, because the difficult economic situation in Mexico.
France, which ruled the emperor Napoleon III used the occasion to change the political regime, support and enforce the conservative faction of the Emperor Maximilian. England and Spain, meanwhile, on landing in Mexico recognized the Liberal government of Benito Juárez, understood the critical situation it was in the country and decided to cancel. Prim General ordered the immediate withdrawal of English troops. It is now 150 years since the start of this major international conflict.
Manuel Ortuño also an author, among other works, a book about the life of Francisco Xavier Mina, hero of the Independence in Mexico called: Xavier Mina: Guerrilla, liberal, insurgent.
Book presentation "The General Prim and tripartite intervention in Mexico"
of Manuel Ortuño
on the 150th anniversary of European intervention in Mexico
Thursday April 28, 2011
19:30 pm
Institute of Mexico in Spain
Carrera de San Jerónimo 46
28014, Madrid
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